Microsoft has announced, through their official "Imagine Cup New Zealand" Facebook page that the Windows 7 Professional RTM will be available on individual MSDNAA students websites on the 6th August, 2009, New Zealand Time. This... More...

Earlier today Neowin reported that Windows 7 build 7232 had leaked. What a difference a few more hours makes, now 7260 has leaked and the Russian site Wzor claims that Microsoft will build the RTM... More...

Update: Google Search seems to be back to normal, the issue was caused by "human error" according to Google. Google Search is currently not functioning correctly and returning "this site may harm your computer" on... More...

Update: You can view the image Here Microsoft and CNN will be teaming up, along with viewers from Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday to create a 3D image of the moment Obama takes the... More...

A few hours ago,we announced that Microsoft was preparing the Windows Live Essentials for release on Thursday. From what I and many others understood, there was apparently a new build labeled as the "final... More...

Thanks Electronic Punk of OSNN.net who pointed me to this news update Developers and IT pros: Download and evaluate the newest, layout-complete build of the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview... More...

Sun Microsystems has reached an agreement to acquire Storage Technology in a move to beef up the U.S. computer company's storage and data management portfolio. Under the agreement announced Thursday, Sun will pay $4.1 billion... More...

After two Preview Releases and 3 public Betas, it has finally arrived! Opera 8 Final - undoubtedly, the worlds fastest and the most standards compliant web browser suite, has been released. Opera has not yet... More...

Project 2002 Security Update: KB831931 offers the highest levels of stability and security available for Microsoft Project. This update fixes a vulnerability where a specially crafted image could allow an attacker's code to run on... More...

This update fixes a vulnerability where a specially crafted image could allow an attacker's code to run on a user's machine due to a vulnerability in the graphics interpreter code. Office XP Security Update: KB832332... More...

Microsoft recommends that you use the Office Update site to determine if your computer requires this update before installing it. For more information on this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article... More...

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the implementation of the IDirectPlay4 API of Microsoft DirectPlay due to a lack of robust packet validation. If a user is running a networked DirectPlay application, an attacker... More...

McAfee has announced that it's purchasing Foundstone for $86 million. Foundstone specializes in technology for spotting and remediating software vulnerabilities. As part of the deal Foundstone's products will become part of McAfee's services,... More...

This download will remove error messages that might be received if you install Works 7.0 on a computer and Word 2002 is already installed on the same computer. Download: wks7dll.exe... More...

Here is some more information about the story that Slashdot first reported on over the weekend. Don't forget to send in your suggestions that are being taken for the release of IE. ... More...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a few new developer tools but otherwise played a greatest-hits set before an audience of about 10,000 information technology professionals at the TechEd conference here Monday. Delivering... More...

Microsoft on Tuesday detailed a new vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that could enable an attacker to remotely execute malicious code. The software maker described the problem as "important,"... More...

Microsoft recommends that you use the Office Update site to determine if your computer requires this update before installing it. For more information on this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article... More...

Overview This Live Communications Server 2003 update offers the highest levels of reliability available for Live Communications Server. This update is part of continued effort by Microsoft to provide the latest product updates to... More...

SUMMARY Microsoft has released an update to Microsoft Office XP. The Office XP Alternative User Input Update: KB832668 updates the framework that is used to support advanced text services in Microsoft Office XP. The... More...

Microsoft recommends that you use the Office Update site to determine if your computer requires this update before installing it. This update addresses a problem where Visio 2003 overwrites some registry settings... More...

New Neowin member feature: Microsoft has kindly agreed for a Neowin staff rep. to ask questions/suggestions written by you, our members during this and future chat sessions, if you can't attend for what ever reason... More...

Quick Info File Name: Visio2003-KB832362-FullFile-ITA.EXE - Download Size: 287 KB - Date Published: 1/27/2004 - Version: 1 Overview This update addresses an issue where an insufficient memory error message... More...

Quick Info File Name: office2003-kb830000-client-enu.exe - Download Size: 1670 KB - 7323 KB - Date Published: 1/27/2004 - Version: 1 Overview Under certain circumstances Word 2003 can become unresponsive... More...

Overview Microsoft recommends that you use the Office Update site to determine if your computer requires this update before installing it. This update enhances the junk e-mail filter in Outlook to help provide a... More...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. confirmed Thursday that it is building a $2.4 billion microprocessor manufacturing facility, or fab, in Dresden, Germany. The facility, named AMD Fab 36, will produce chips on 300 millimeter wafers and... More...

Microsoft recommends that you use the Office Update site to determine if your computer requires this update before installing it. Office 2003 Critical Update: KB828041 offers the highest levels of reliability available... More...

Originally the source code leaked in a 32meg package last week. The leak spelt the beginning of an investigation into how this could have happened. The result? A flurry of forums across the internet all... More...

Quick Info File Name: q331488.exe - Download Size: 611 KB - Date Published: 9/16/2003 - Version: SP1 Overview All versions of Outlook Express, including the version that is shipped with... More...

Thanks to a prying eye and probably a stroke of luck, a user has managed to exploit Microsofts Newsgroups via Microsoft BetaNews. That user can gain access to any Beta newsgroup as long as he... More...

Vivendi Universal says that Valve is now scheduled to complete the game in time for the holidays. When Valve announced Half-Life 2 in early May, some were surprised by Valve's firm insistence... More...

Quick Info File Name: Windows2000-KB329938-x86-ENU.exe - Download Size: 689 KB - Date Published: 7/21/2003 - Version: 329938 Overview This Internet Information Services (IIS 5.0) update corrects an issue that... More...

This update will enable you to automatically view responses to Windows error reports. After submitting an error report, if information relating to the crash event is available such as a fix, workaround, or other information,... More...

I was just reading over the mirror's daily news and Amy Vickers pages there when i found something rather frightening. The iloo. According to the mirror's exclusive and MSN's Marketing manager Tracy Blacher,... More...

Quick Info File Name: ps1002.exe - Download Size: 377 KB - Date Published: 4/18/2003 - Version: 1 Overview The Microsoft Project Server 2002 Update: April 15, 2003 offers customers the... More...

Who should read this bulletin: Customers using Microsoft® Windows® NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP Impact of vulnerability: Denial of Service Maximum Severity Rating: Important Recommendation: Customers should... More...

Quick Info File Name: q331596.exe - Download Size: 345 KB - Date Published: 3/21/2003 - Version: 6 Overview When you download a Microsoft Excel file that uses HTTP compression... More...

Microsoft are confused themselves ;) Who do we believe Bob or Brian? There's no Longhorn server family on tap, Microsoft says. But there might be a limited edition server timed around... More...

We posted this back in January when DirectX 9 had just released, but for some reason a debug version was used (I only noticed this yesterday while playing with dxdiag) so I downloaded the SDK... More...

Overview The Outlook 2002 Update: January 22, 2003 offers the highest levels of stability and security available for Microsoft Outlook 2002. This update fixes an issue in Microsoft Outlook 2002 that occurs when encrypting... More...

This update fixes an issue with Microsoft OutlookTM 2000 in Internet Mail Only (IMO) mode after the Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is installed, in which Outlook 2000 reminders may not behave as... More...

Thanks JimmyT who alerted us to this news. It seems that Creative has ditched its affiliation with NVIDIA and has chosen to market its Creative Blaster 5 series of cards under the ATI flag. On... More...

Cheers Doug for mailing me this info, we must of missed this while we were down but so did everyone else it seems. hehe The Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) provides the... More...

UPDATE: Thanks to Playboy ('u da man!') for giving us the details on changes that was made in this version. Thanks artificiallife for the heads up. The program launcher "Y'z Dock" like the... More...

UPDATE: I've replaced the download link with the direct download url, and I also learned from besiboyz that there are no bug fixes in this version and the only differences with previous version were ability... More...

Thanks vla...There are many new and exciting features in all of the DirectX components. The SDK has added a new member to its core technology called Managed DirectX, a DirectPlay port for the PocketPC,... More...

AMD's Opteron won't reject unlicensed content afterall... According to an AMD UK representative, AMD's Opteron products will run any kind of content in the future -- contrary to the report in The Age,... More...

Hello fellow Neowinians, I've four new MS Security Bulletin updates to present to you today. During this past few days MS has released a total of four security bulletin updates which includes the following: MS02-044,... More...

Hello fellow neowinians. This shall be my first time posting news for the neowin crew so i ask that you be gentle with your criticisms just this once eh? Anywho, without further ado, on with... More...

Warp2Search says...Word from WinBeta.org that a new version of SP1 has been leaked onto the net taking the Build number to 1097 Another SP1 leak from microsoft FileVersion: 5.1.2600.1097 (xpsp1.020813-2140) ... More...